Quotes about God

If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.

If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire His gifts, but even more, His glory.

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.

People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful designs of God.

Physical pain is God's trumpet blast to tell us that something is dreadfully wrong in the world.

Irony and disproportion are all God's way. He keeps us off balance with his unpredictable connections. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it small. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big.

The most foundational thing to see from the Bible about marriage is that it is God's doing. And the ultimate thing to see from the Bible about marriage is that it is for God's glory. Those are the two points I have to make. Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God.

God is our supreme pleasure. We prefer above all else to know him and see him and be with him and be like him.

If we are attracted by the desirability of something God promises, and hope to enjoy it without enjoying God in it and by it, then we are turning God's promise into a summons to idolatry.

Christ came to prove that God tells the truth, that God keeps his promises. Christmas means that God can be trusted.

James warns against the pride of presumption in speaking of the simplest plans in life without a due submission to the overarching sovereignty of God over the day's agenda. Man's plans might be interrupted by God's decision to take the life he gave.

So we can go deeper than Mather's point. Behind God's commitment to reign as king is the deeper foundational commitment that his glory will one day fill the earth (Num. 14:21; Ps. 57:5; 72:19; Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14).